Andersonglossum boreale, known as northern wild comfrey or just wild comfrey, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It is native to boreal coniferous and mixed forests in North America, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia and Yukon in Canada, south to New Jersey and Indiana in the United States. It is often found in rocky or sandy soils. It is extirpated (locally extinct) from many of the southern parts of its range.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Andersonglossum boreale has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
eDNA detections1
Countries1
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type242 records
Wild obs. + sensor232
Museum / vouchered10
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO744 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy72% within 1 km
≤100 m 119≤1 km 20≤10 km 12>10 km 41
192 georeferenced · 40 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor232
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy50% within 1 km
≤1 km 1≤10 km 1
2 georeferenced · 8 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence10
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions7 of 7 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Tampa, US
4
Bronx, US
1
Vancouver, CA
1
Whitehorse, CA
1
Durham, US
1
Montréal, CA
1
Saint John, CA
1
7 institutions · 10 of 10 vouchered records shown
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Andersonglossum boreale was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median12.7 °C 12.7–12.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter23.3 °C
Max temp (day)18.7 °C
Min temp (night)6.60 °C
Precipitation125 mm/mo
Air humidity57.5 %
Moisture balance5.90 mm/mo
Vapour deficit626 Pa
Wind speed1.30 m/s
Cloud cover39.6 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
